Remember Jim & Myra’s wedding? Well, besides having a gorgeous wedding, they have a gorgeous house and new baby! Jim has spent years building all this from scratch, and it’s still a work in progress. Hand hewn beams, strawbale, stained glass windows.
This is the front door into the big, airy, warm kitchen. It’s one of the coziest places ever. I should have taken more photos so you could really get the scale, it’s HUGE.
See? Pretty dang cozy.
Babies agree! Warm & cozy! (& Myra is 29, don’t worry. I know she looks 14.)
That giant door is a fridge/storage. Seriously, how is this real?
Pantry nook hidden behind the kitchen. Sticks!
The kitchen leads to the living room, a huge huge space with a stage for parties!! It’s so sunny and airy, and feels like you’ve left modern time and space and are in some old fashioned banquet hall!
From there, you go up a twisty stairwell to one bathroom with a mirrored hot tub, and a steampunk shower.
And another all green and cavernous. Up another staircase, and there are bedrooms with hidden nooks, a door to the living roof, and some of the most beautiful spaces ever.
Just through that door is the living roof.
Gratuitous pretty sister shot. On the right is my sister in law.
Outside, there’s a treehouse built for Jim’s older boy, one of the best I’ve seen.
I will live in this one, ok?
How about you all? Ever considered strawbale building?
nath
1 year ago
BEAUTIFUL! yes! some friends of ours built a strawbale house on their small-holding. we looked after it and their animals for a week, two autumns ago, we loved it. everything in their house was either useful or beautiful or both. handmade or selvedged. it’s not on such a grand scale as Jim and Myra’s but certainly shares some of the same charm and beauty. i’d lOVE to build my own house. i’d like a little sauna out back too.
verhext
1 year ago
I really, really, really, really, really want a sauna. I should start looking up how to build one.
Ashe MIschief
1 year ago
Swoon! What a beautiful, cozy house. Apparently I need to move to Vermont, all of the houses you showcase there are so lovely and charming!
nath
1 year ago
can’t be difficult! no, no, no, easy i think! a must-have! pause and re-imagine, *how* amazing?
Nokomi
1 year ago
Oh pretty lady, you’re really in full nesting mode huh? How wonderful! I hope you utterly delight in it! That house looks completely divine, what a wonderful sacred space to live and raise a family and laugh and enjoy with friends! Would love to build a strawbale house one day – I remember reading that while it was difficult labour-wise, it was achievable by any layperson (within reason!) and I love the idea of having family and friends lend energy to creating something that is not only the ideal space within which to lead a deliberate life (thanks Thoreau!) but that is friendly to the environment also! Love.
verhext
1 year ago
I have one more house to post, too. Oops? Yeah, I really really want to head home and buy a house & make it cozy. Getting old!! Something about renting forever, when I see houses that are made by hand it really makes me itch for something I can build myself, or at least renovate to perfection!
Nadia
1 year ago
Oh… my…..I’m in love
That is now my dream house, I love every single detail. And that kitchen! It just invites you to cook! Thank you so much for sharing it
Those kids are so lucky to have such a beautiful, magical place to grow up in. Jim should be very, very proud of himself – he’s created a masterpiece
alita
1 year ago
so gorgeous! you should compile a book of elf-houses.
Stephanie
1 year ago
Oohhh, lovely. So similar to the cob house my husband and I plan to build once we get our own land. That little bricked alcove in the kitchen has given me some great ideas!
laura
1 year ago
i. am. agog.
verhext
1 year ago
Move to Vermont! Move to Vermont! Move to Vermont!
andrea gutierrez
1 year ago
what an awesome place to live! beautiful…
Mathyld / under the pyramids
1 year ago
Oh dear … I will dream of this house …
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Myra Hudson
1 year ago
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my favorite view
verhext
1 year ago
You’re trying to upload from your hard drive!
But yes, I didn’t even mention the AMAZING VIEWS. Link from yr Flickr!!
verhext
1 year ago
found them on your flickr!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tillica/4597000910/
& the living roof
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tillica/4641986326/
lucky ducklings!
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miss alix
1 year ago
this house is wonderful. looking at the photos i feel almost like tearing up as it is so perfect. i love it. the kitchen is a dream.
Alexandra
1 year ago
WOW! Amazing. here via APW.